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Source: <<A>> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203816

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PLATES LXXVII, LXXVII.
Eight square Pavillions for my Lord Cobham and others.

PLATE LXXIX.
Four Summer-houses in form of Temples, Design'd for several persons.

PLATES LXXX, LXXXI.
Eight more of an Octagon form.

PLATE LXXXII.
Two Seats for the ends of Walks.

PLATE LXXXIII.
Two other Seats for the same purpose.

PLATE LXXXIV.
Two Draughts of a Building for the Menagery at Hackwood. The Portico of the one is with Arches, and the other with Columns; having a Room at wach end, and two Rooms behind for the person that looks after the Pheasants. That with the Columns is built.

PLATE LXXXV.
Three Draughts of Obelisques. The Antients have left us in the dark as to the Proportion of these Ornaments with respect to their Height. Those at Rome being all different, there can be no rule taken from them. I have in these Draughts shewn three different proportions for them; viz. 8, 7, and 6 times the bigness at the Bottom to the Height. The first (tho' nearest to that before St. Peter's) appearing too high, and the last too low, I should recommend the other, as a Medium between the two Extremes, as likewise the following Rules to be observed in forming them; viz. The Obelisque to diminish one Third, the Diamond Point to form a Rectangle, the Base to be in height half the thickness of the Bottom of the Obelisque, and the Base, Pedestal and Plinth to be three times that Thickness.

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